Re: ANN: examplotron.

From: Murata Makoto <mura034@attglobal.net>

To: xml-dev@xml.org

Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 00:16:10 +0900

Eric van der Vlist wrote:
>
>John Cowan wrote:
>> Very nice! The obvious limitation is that recursive models cannot
>> be supported, which should be mentioned in the doco.
>
>Right, I'll add it.
If you see my definition of hedge regular expressions, you will find
two star operators. One repeats concatenation of hedges, and you
already have this. The other star operator repeats embedding of
hedges.
You only have to introduce this star operator. Then,
examplotron will become as expressive as RELAX and TREX, and more
expressive than XML Schema and DTD. It is also possible to convert
examlotron (even with this extension) to RELAX and TREX.
More about this, see my PODS (Principles of Database Systems) 2001
paper at:
http://www.geocities.com/murata_makoto/podsMURATA.pdf
>It's possible to extend it like I have shown for the definition of the
>occurrences, but then it would loose much of its simplicity and become a
>classical schema language.
Although it is possible to introduce the star operator for embedding,
I am very sure that schemas containing many occurrences of this star
operator will become extremely hard to understand.
Cheers,
Makoto
Cheers,
Makoto